Greetings Zenem Ether

I had my last lectures of the term yesterday.  The rest of this week's lectures have been cancelled because we've finished the notes and the workshops are optional so I don't think I'm going to bother going to them. 

Since I had to uninstall Fallout 3 I've got back into Runescape.  It had changed a bit in the time I had off so I had loads of dead easy tasks to do and a few harder ones that I'm working towards currently.  Also, I've got my character on the high scores for a few skills which is almost an achievement. 

Golden Sun: Dark Dawn came out on Friday and it will no doubt be the best Christmas present I get this year.  I won't try to describe how excited I am to start it up on the DS and have the most epic music ever playing through the speakers while I start the new game that will keep me sat silently in my room for hours on end.  I'm planning on playing it so much that the battery needs recharging at least twice in the first session. 

Due to GS:DD being a Christmas present I was able to leave my room and go to see Jason Manford live at Blackpool Opera House on Friday evening with Liz and 10 others from Bowland.  It was the first time I've been out in a large group like that in as long as I can remember.  As good as it was, I think I still prefer it when it's just the two of us.  The size of the group didn't affect the comedy though and it was great.  The encore lasted quite a while so we all left early to make sure we were back in time to get our trains. 

The other possibly noteworthy thing I can remember to have happened since my last blog is concerning Liz's nonsense of direction.  We went for a walk after tea one night and didn't really know how far we were going to go before turning back.  So let's just skip all the uneventful, intentionally walking away from Chancellor's Wharf and you'll find us at a crossroads.  At this point we were going to head back home and, as always, I insisted that by turning left we will get to wherever we're going.  I don't know what it is about suggesting we turn right but I've never really liked it.  Left is just a better direction to be turning.  Anyway, Liz insisted that we should turn right to get home and, because I wanted to go for a longer walk, that's the way we went. 
After following Liz along a few roads and across a car park we arrived at the canal.  I was confidently informed that we were on the south side of the canal and so we should go left and follow it back to Chancellor's Wharf.  As good as this turning-left idea sounded, it was very cold and I was ready to be back in my warm (less cold) room.  I decided that turning right would be a quicker way to get home and sure enough, from the bridge over the canal, Lancaster Cathedral was just about visible in the distance in the direction I had reluctantly suggested.  This, the signpost to "White Cross Industrial Estate" and what I must assume to be a lifetime of not knowing how geography works helped Liz realise that I had a better idea about the fastest route home.  It took us about half an hour to get back.